Although Cantonese use almost the same Chinese characters in their newspaper, most of Mandarin-speaking readers cannot really understand what they are talking about.

Why? Because they use Cantonese idioms, which have made the language so colorful.

Today, we’ll try to start to cover some of those interesting Cantonese idioms as some of our visitors have been requesting us to do so:

煲手機粥 bou1 sau2gei1 zuk1= making long calls with their celphone – the calls last so long just like cooking the porridge.煲电话粥 bou1 din6waa2 zuk1 = make long phone call(s)殺到埋身 killing comes to you — refers to danger is coming near.有殺錯無放過 kill all (even the wrong ones ) so none is missed…新鮮滾熱 brand new/fresh死得人多 lots of people will be affected in a bad way / many people will be harmed.失魂魚 a fish with a soul — like a chicken running with its head cut off… refers to something that can bumps into anyone in the way.